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Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4ND running Commander Keen 4. Both of the machines pictured are functional in the time of writing, although I only have one floppy unit which actually works. It was enough to bootstrap them to start transferring stuff using an RS-232 cable.

Interestingly I got both of the machines with one or another version of Linux (Red Hat) installed even though they came from different sources. These were of no use as the hard drives of both already lost several sectors of data. Usually formatting the drives a few times work this case, but for one I rather picked up a CF card converter to get an absolutely silent machine (One of the drives were already in just too bad shape with several permanent bad sectors anyways).

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An European Green Lizard in the hills above Budapest, Hungary. Spring came, so the insects started crawling out from their winter hideouts, and then that's the start of the game for the lower hunters of the food chain, the lizards. It took a while to get this one, about a hour of waiting the thing to come off from a thorny bush where it hid, but it did worth!

The Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4ND is a rather common piece of old laptop, and actually it is a very decent one! In short it is a very nice piece of equipment for daily use with a not too fast but still decent color LCD display driven by the good old Cirrus VGA chip (512Kb VRAM), a 4.86 processor at 50-100 MHz, and native Sound Blaster compatible sound solution in certain models. These features can make it ideal for running most of the games and software from the old DOS era.

So well, let's build an LPT DAC! What is this first, what it can give? In short this was the "poor man's sound card" in the early 90's, a simple solution giving you a decent 8bit mono digital output if carefully assembled from the proper parts. Of course it won't be a Sound Blaster, only a few games, MOD players and trackers support it, but if you have these, it can be a nice add-on especially for those old brick notebooks not having any advanced sound support.

The 15th March is special in Hungary, we would be celebrating the anniversary of an important uprising, one against the Hapsburg dynasty demanding more autonomy for our country within their empire. It was the pinnacle of the age of reformation, but one which later got usurped like all the other movements happening in that year. Then, today... It seems like people here lost all their sanity siding with an oppressive government and very few caring of any movement which tries any reformation.

An old (2006) implementation of the logic game Kye playing the original 15 levels for Linux & Windows. It gives an unique look and feel with a little different probably more intuitive mechanic while still giving the same old game with all of it's components. Source code is included. Requires at least a Pentium 200MHz machine for decent performance.

Flight of a Dragon is a retro game for the Uzebox open source game console, a bit of 8 bit madness involving an ATMega 644 and a bit of electronics to get it producing a video signal and accepting input from an SNES controller. Thanks to emulation, you may also try it out within your browser!

In this article I am going to cover how it is possible and probably the most efficient to work with images using non-square pixels in Gimp. Why this has some importance? It is mainly useful for doing artwork for retro computing such as the quasi-standard 320x200 256 color VGA mode, the Commodore 64 and several other machines and display modes of the 80s which frequently had non-square pixels.

Yet another wyvern design aiming for realistic capability of flight and a dragonlike appearance, a controversial beauty. She has no direct relation to the gold wyverns of Outbreak to the Sky, although those were one inspiration source to design her.

Probably one of the most condensed scenery possible on the cheetaan homeworld before the wars. A huge gas-giant, exomoons, a gargantuan creature resembling a tiger, a cheetah riding a feathered wyvern over crystalline buildings scattered in a swamp, anything missing?

This page contains all the information i know on an old laptop, the Chicony NB5620. In short this is a 3.86 laptop running at a now pathetic 20MHz clock in turbo mode with a slow and dim 640x480 greyscale LCD panel, at most 5 megabytes of RAM, and 40Mb hard disk space. When it was released in 1991 this sure was a powerhouse, and now it is a very rare piece of equipment.

Cheetaan city scene. Experimenting with foliage, and at last, some proper colouring. The Cheetaan (Tani), first time portrayed in a typical city setting of theirs. In the distance, the organic statue of the centre, a white arch of plant-sustained Mag-Lev track, with of course a lot of green, and the two Tani races who are primary builders of this civilization.

Flight of a Dragon is a retro style game for the Uzebox open source game console, a bit of 8 bit madness involving an ATMega 644 and a bit of electronics to get it producing a video signal and accepting input from an SNES controller. Now the game is complete so you can finally lead the dragon to his salvation! Thanks to emulation, you may also try it out within your browser!

This large digital image was drawn for more than two months until it was completed (Or better to say I thought there is no much to do with it any more). It is one of my better pieces although it suffers some coloring problems. The theme would be an abandoned city on Earth, with cheetaans wandering around seeking for the sunshine. This is a part of the "original" cheetaan story, that is the story of the first interstellar war between human and cheetaan.

Title screen plan for the Cheetaan Legacy game. It might need some color adjustments (There is a dark red color which might be invisible on some displays) which I might do at a later time editing this graphics further. The problem is mainly that my monitor has a really weird color space at darker color levels.

What happens when something gets me really inspired in the process... (Click the image to get it in 1920x1200) You could also check out the related article for the backgrounds and some research over airworthiness. Enjoy!